Prosecutor's Office urges the Tsunami judge to file without "further delays" the appeal that sees insufficient evidence in Puigdemont

He warns that he will make the delay known if necessary "to obtain a response"

MADRID, 30 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court has asked the judge investigating Tsunami Democratic for its role in the riots that followed the Supreme Court ruling that condemned the leaders of the Catalan independence 'process' in the fall of 2019 to raise without "further delay "to the Criminal Court the appeal in which he maintains that the evidence against former president Carles Puigdemont is "insufficient."

In a writing, collected by Europa Press, the prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo addresses the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, to remind him that "he should have already submitted to the Court" the appeal that was filed last November 10.

Along these lines, the Public Ministry "expressly urges" the magistrate to process it "without establishing further delays." "Which, if they persist, would be brought to the attention of the Chamber, the only channel that would remain for this Ministry to obtain a response to its effective judicial protection through appeal," he warns.

The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court appealed the order of the judge who agreed to direct the investigation into Democratic Tsunami against Puigdemont, considering that this special court "is not competent" for that case because there are no signs of terrorism but of public disorders. Furthermore, he indicated that the evidence against Puigdemont is "insufficient."

The appeal made it clear that the actions carried out within the framework of the Tsunami investigation, which began four years ago, "have not produced elements that allow us to support the existence of a criminal organization or group, nor its terrorist nature, which is which would justify the competence of the AN".

The prosecutor in the case stressed that the facts collected in the case do not prove the existence of hierarchies, nor distribution of functions among those investigated, nor the existence of a governing body, nor the concerted perpetration of different criminal acts, necessary requirements, according to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, to assess that there was a criminal organization.

"Not a single one of these data is included in the proceedings. But the mere presence of several people in some proceedings does not in itself allow us to speak of a criminal group either," he explained then.

Thus, it considers that the only criminal acts that can be deduced from the proceedings in the case would be those carried out at the Prat airport and at the La Junquera border post, constituting serious public disorder, after the repeal of sedition.